wyszukanych pozycji: 56
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John Masefield
ISBN: 9781784101329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voyage round Cape Horn. The next three years he spent in New York, in a bakery, a livery stable, a saloon and a carpet factory. Back in England, he wrote for the Guardian and in the First World War served with the Red Cross. Throughout these years he had been writing poetry, and when in 1923 his Collected Poems appeared they sold over 200,000 copies. In 1930 he succeeded Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate.
John Masefield (1878-1967) lived a life as varied as his work. At the age of fifteen he went to sea as an apprentice in a windjammer and made the voya...
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780241964002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime' Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set. Introduced to an unsettling world of adult games and curious intrigues, the Brodie Set know that...
Beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you ...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9780061711299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods, in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd, in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther, and--most important--in her dedication to -her girls, - the students she selects to be her creme de la creme. Fanatically devoted, each member of the Brodie set--Eunice, Jenny, Mary, Monica, Rose, and Sandy--is -famous for something, - and Miss... At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in h... |
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A Far Cry From Kensington
ISBN: 9781844085279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. * 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent
* 'The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight' Claire Tomalin, Independent
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The Girls Of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780241989128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Territorial Rights
ISBN: 9780811222655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of youth; unmarked graves Territorial Rights claims much ground and Muriel Spark enjoys a wicked dance on it."
Layers of intrigue; triangulating love affairs; murders; international spy-craft; adultery; parental interference; the sweet careless rapture of youth...
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The Comforters
ISBN: 9780811223003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a diabolic bookseller, human evil.
With easy, sunny eeriness, Spark lights up the darkest things: blackmail, a drowning, nervous breakdowns, a ring of smugglers, a loathsome busybody, a...
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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem
ISBN: 9781857152746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.
Four novels in one; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls Of Slender Means, The Driver's Seat, The Only Problem.
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A Far Cry From Kensington
ISBN: 9780349019581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Public Image: A Virago Modern Classic
ISBN: 9781844089673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under her spell, her perfect image must be carefully cultivated, whatever the cost. Beneath the facade, though, her husband cannot bear her or their vapid existence. Envious of her success, he plots his revenge and stages a scandal even Annabel will find a challenge to recover from.
Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public under h...
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
ISBN: 9781846977183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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Loitering with Intent
ISBN: 9780811223034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the literary world at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association s pompous director steals Fleur s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life."
Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job on the grubby edge of the lit...
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The Public Image
ISBN: 9780140031317 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless paparazzi and anxious admirers under her spell the image must be carefully cultivated. Only Annabel hasn't calculated on the plans of her husband.
Annabel Christopher is a goddess to her adoring Italian public, her loving husband part of her perfect image. To keep the eager sycophants, ruthless p...
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Meistererzählungen
ISBN: 9783257228793 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Die besten Erzählungen von Muriel Spark: Die schwarze Madonna / Die Frau des Pfandleihers / Die Zwillinge / Miss Pinkertons Apokalypse / »... und für den Winter eine traurige Geschichte« / Vogelruf / Daisy Overend / Sie hätten den Schmutz sehen sollen! / Komm mit, Marjorie / Portobello Road / Der Seraph und der Sambesi
Die besten Erzählungen von Muriel Spark: Die schwarze Madonna / Die Frau des Pfandleihers / Die Zwillinge / Miss Pinkertons Apokalypse / »... und fÃ...
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The Driver's Seat
ISBN: 9780141188348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an introduction by John Lanchester in Penguin Modern Classics. Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and new experiences takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction....
Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological thriller, published with an...
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The Finishing School
ISBN: 9781782117575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. 'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be novelist and his wife run a finishing school of questionable reputation to keep the funds flowing. When a seventeen-year-old student's writing career begins to show great promise, tensions run high. A keen portrait of devouring regret, psychological unravelling and the glittering promise of youth, The Finishing... 'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' ALI SMITH In The Finishing School Mu... |
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The Girls Of Slender Means
ISBN: 9780241963999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May of Teck Club - a London hostel 'three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit' - the young lady residents do their best to act as if the war never happened. They practice elocution, and jostle one another over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. But behind the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations they hide some tragically painful secrets and wounds.'You girls are my...
Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England w...
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Memento Mori
ISBN: 9780349010342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully desi...
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Symposium
ISBN: 9781844082476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked best.
Seemingly banal dinner-party chat reveals strange tales of the guests' dodgy pasts and unreliable futures. Symposium is Muriel Spark at her wicked...
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The Complete Short Stories
ISBN: 9781786890016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway
The definitive short story collection from an unmistakable voice. Introduced by Janice Galloway
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